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NZ Scientists Start Year-Long Tsunami Project in Samoa
Friday, 11 February 2011, 3:26 pm | GNS Science
Scientists from New Zealand have started a year-long project to develop tsunami evacuation maps for Samoa. The project is funded by the New Zealand Aid Programme and is being undertaken by tsunami and social science specialists at GNS Science. Four of the ... More >>
GeoNet: Mag. 5.1 earthquake, Canterbury region, NZ
Thursday, 20 January 2011, 9:15 am | GNS Science
Thursday, 20 January 2011 at 6:03 am Latitude, Longitude: 43.62°S, 172.55°E Location: 10 km south-west of Christchurch Focal depth: 10 km Richter magnitude: 5.1 More >>
Scientists To Probe Lake Rotomahana
Monday, 15 November 2010, 4:47 pm | GNS Science
Scientists from the New Zealand and the United States are planning to use two torpedo-like unmanned underwater vehicles to map the bottom of Lake Rotomahana, near Rotorua, and look for hydrothermal activity on the lake bed. More >>
Antarctic Scientific Drilling Project Underway
Thursday, 4 November 2010, 2:32 pm | GNS Science
Scientists and engineers head south this week to prepare for the most challenging sub-ice drilling project yet attempted in Antarctica. More >>
Volcanic Ash Impacts More Frequent in Auckland
Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 10:28 am | GNS Science
Scientists have identified 29 previously unknown volcanic ash layers while drilling into ancient eruption craters in Auckland. Some ash layers have come from eruptions in the Auckland area, and others have come from volcanoes in the central North Island ... More >>
Good Christchurch Quake Recording Project Uptake
Wednesday, 15 September 2010, 1:06 pm | GNS Science
Scientists have been overwhelmed with Christchurch people volunteering to host miniature earthquake recorders in their homes to record aftershocks. More >>
Textbook Aftershock Sequence, Seismologist Says
Friday, 10 September 2010, 11:17 am | GNS Science
The number and size of aftershocks in Canterbury is in line with expectations for a main shock of magnitude 7.1, a seismologist said today. More >>
NZ Emerged From Last Ice Age While Europe Shivered
Friday, 10 September 2010, 10:25 am | GNS Science
A geological study of a South Island glacier shows that New Zealand began warming up 13,000 years ago at the same time as Europe sank back into an ice-age freeze. More >>
Earthquake: Christchurch Mag 5.1, 7:49 8/9/10
Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 10:00 am | GNS Science
Magnitude 5.1, Wednesday, September 8 2010 at 7:49 am (NZST), 10 km north-west of Diamond Harbour. More >>
Initial Report - 5.2 Earthquake in Hawke's Bay
Tuesday, 7 September 2010, 11:21 am | GNS Science
Magnitude 5.2, Tuesday, September 7 2010 at 10:48 am (NZST), 20 km south-east of Porangahau More >>
Fault Had Not Ruptured for at Least 16,000 Years
Monday, 6 September 2010, 5:16 pm | GNS Science
Scientists Head to Canterbury to Study Quake
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 2:46 pm | GNS Science
Scientists from GNS Science, Victoria University of Wellington and Stanford University in the US are heading to Canterbury to join colleagues from Canterbury University to deploy about 40 portable earthquake instruments to record aftershocks in the wake ... More >>
Seismologists Revise Canterbury Quake Details
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 11:35 am | GNS Science
The size of the earthquake that hit Canterbury early today has been revised to magnitude 7.1 with a focal depth of 10km to 12km, GNS Science said. More >>
Earthquake report: Mag 7.1 West of Christchurch
Saturday, 4 September 2010, 9:15 am | GNS Science
Widely felt throughout New Zealand. Note: the location, magnitude and depth have been revised. More >>
Rare ‘Double-Whammy’ Quakes Near Tonga
Thursday, 19 August 2010, 11:11 am | GNS Science
Scientists have found that the tsunami that devastated parts of Tonga and Samoa in September 2009 was caused by two almost simultaneous earthquakes, not one as previously thought. More >>
Drilling Planned as Part of Alpine Fault Research
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 9:15 am | GNS Science
New Zealand scientists are taking the first steps in an ambitious long-term research project focussed on understanding how the Alpine Fault in the South Island has evolved and produces earthquakes. More >>
Rare Seafloor Chimney Cut Up for Science
Wednesday, 7 July 2010, 1:23 pm | GNS Science
Scientists have sliced up a rare 2.5m-tall seafloor chimney to find out its age and the concentrations of the metallic minerals it contains. It is thought to be one of the largest chimneys recovered from the seafloor. More >>
New Geological Map of Fiordland Decade in Making
Thursday, 27 May 2010, 3:14 pm | GNS Science
Seven summers of fieldwork in remote parts of Fiordland by a group of geologists culminated this week with the publishing of a new geological map covering this World Heritage area. More >>
New $3m Accelerator a Vital Asset to NZ Science
Wednesday, 19 May 2010, 4:23 pm | GNS Science
A new $3.4 million accelerator mass spectrometer, opened today at GNS Science by Research Science and Technology Minister Dr Wayne Mapp, represents a major step forward in helping New Zealand understand climate change and its possible impacts. More >>
Scientists Gather for Gas Hydrate Conference
Monday, 10 May 2010, 9:44 am | GNS Science
This week scientists from around the world are in Wellington for a three-day conference on a little-known potential form of energy that occurs naturally under the seabed. More >>
